Linux Administrator Jobs in the South West

Linux Administrator
England > South West

The median Linux Administrator salary in the South West is £48,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 259 302
Rank change year-on-year -2 +43 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Administrator 30 18 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.33% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.29% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 28 11 6
10th Percentile - £56,250 -
25th Percentile £41,500 £63,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £67,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +80.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,750 £45,125
90th Percentile - £75,000 £49,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 8,830 6,152 7,687
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 89.16% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,458 3,853 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Linux Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Linux Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Administrator in the South West

Linux Administrator
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Linux Administrator in the South West.

Salary trend for Linux Administrator in the South West

Linux Administrator
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Linux Administrator in the South West over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Linux Administrator in the South West

Linux Administrator
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Linux Administrator within the South West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire - 15 £52,500 -
Wiltshire -8 7 £45,000 -33.33%
Bristol +9 6 £43,625 -35.37% 1
Somerset +2 1 £55,000 -18.52%
Devon - 1 £58,000 -
Linux Administrator
England

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Linux Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Linux Administrator in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 19 (63.33%) Bash
3 17 (56.67%) Ansible
3 17 (56.67%) Unix
4 16 (53.33%) Red Hat
4 16 (53.33%) Puppet
4 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
4 16 (53.33%) CentOS
4 16 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (50.00%) AWS
6 14 (46.67%) Python
7 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
8 12 (40.00%) Git
9 11 (36.67%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (36.67%) ITIL
9 11 (36.67%) Time Management
9 11 (36.67%) OpenShift
9 11 (36.67%) CoreOS
10 10 (33.33%) Load Balancing
11 9 (30.00%) DevOps
11 9 (30.00%) VMware
12 8 (26.67%) Windows
12 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
13 6 (20.00%) Azure
14 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
14 5 (16.67%) RHCSA
14 5 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
14 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
14 5 (16.67%) High Availability
14 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef

Linux Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) OpenShift
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (3.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) LDAP
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.67%) Client/Server
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 17 (56.67%) Unix
3 16 (53.33%) CentOS
3 16 (53.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (36.67%) CoreOS
5 8 (26.67%) Windows
6 4 (13.33%) Debian
6 4 (13.33%) Solaris
6 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) ITIL
1 11 (36.67%) Time Management
2 10 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
4 5 (16.67%) Business Continuity
4 5 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 5 (16.67%) High Availability
4 5 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 1 (3.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (3.33%) Customer Experience
7 1 (3.33%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (3.33%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) Bash
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (43.33%) DV Cleared
3 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) RHCE
4 5 (16.67%) RHCSA
5 4 (13.33%) Degree
6 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.33%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Ansible
2 16 (53.33%) Puppet
3 5 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
3 5 (16.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (6.67%) SCCM
4 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 9 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft